Cogito Ergo Sacre: Sacred Reasoning in Rene Descartes' Method.
The theoretical clash between the sacred and the profane is one of the most compelling aspects of the way humans use discourse in the pursuit of truth. Rene Descartes' method, understood as an attempt to rebuild a body of knowledge by calling all that is known into question, demonstrates this dynami...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 46; no. 4; pp. 28 - 44 |
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